I need some cute and amusing examples of real life bad graphs, charts or tables that are misleading (whether deliberately to sell something or just because people are stupid) or just plain wrong. Or even just stupid sentances in news articles like "53% of people die". I am helping give a talk at work about statistics and how to communicate it clearly without misleading people. My google foo is really weak - I just can't seem to hit useful keywords (I'm sure the internet must delight in making pages of things like this). If you find something that does work, please let me know how you found it, so in future I can do it myself instead of bothering you!

Ben wrote an article for a schools publication which was published a couple of months back - send him an email and I'm pretty sure he'd be able to send you the article, which has a few such examples in.

I'd instinctively google "misleading statistics powerpoint". Which returns some useful looking links, the first of which (mtsu32.mtsu.edu:11235/Misleading%20Statistics.ppt) seems like it would be the right thing based on the 'view as html' cache, but doesn't actually exist.

As others have posted the two places I'd look for really bad charts (Badscience and junkcharts - although a third would be the rise and fall of the FTSE graphs that are continually presented with no baseline), I'm going to give one example of a really good chart as a counterpoint - that of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.

For a bit of grandstanding, I'd buy a copy of the Daily Wail the day before you give the talk and grab half a dozen case studies from there.

For humourously bad use of statistics I'd suggest almost all of econometrics ever. My personal favourite is the proof that countries converge to similar GDP per capita by picking a group of countries which are all rich now and showing that their GDP per capita converged over the last 150 years.